Neoliberal performatives and the ‘making’ of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) | Zendy

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Neoliberal performatives and the ‘making’ of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)

Author(s) -

Kolinjivadi Vijay,

Van Hecken Gert,

Almeida Diana Vela,

Dupras Jérôme,

Kosoy Nicolás

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

progress in human geography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.283

H-Index - 146

eISSN - 1477-0288

pISSN - 0309-1325

DOI - 10.1177/0309132517735707

Subject(s) - performative utterance , craft , agency (philosophy) , ecosystem services , embodied cognition , sociology , environmental ethics , hegemony , ideal (ethics) , aesthetics , payment , epistemology , business , social science , political science , ecosystem , ecology , law , art , philosophy , geography , politics , archaeology , finance , biology

This paper argues that Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) serve as a neoliberal performative act, in which idealized conditions are re-constituted by well-resourced and networked epistemic communities with the objective of bringing a distinctly instrumental and utilitarian relationality between humans and nature into existence. We illustrate the performative agency of hegemonic epistemic communities advocating (P)ES imaginaries to differentiate between the cultural construction of an ideal reality, which can and always will fail, and an external reality of actually produced effects. In doing so, we explore human agency to disobey performative acts to craft embodied and life-affirming relationships with nature.

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